ABSTRACT
Chapters on the Old Right, New Labour, Old Left and New Left can discuss the work of broadly homogeneous groups of thinkers who have contributed to and shaped distinctive traditions of political and economic thinking, that have informed policy debates and policy-making within the Labour Party. The categorisation of some thinkers may be disputed and the intellectual trajectory of others may result in their movement across the political spectrum (and so between chapters) but there is a set of core beliefs, critical perspectives and policy prescriptions that most commentators would associate with each of these denominations and which give them a measure of ideological coherence.
